Fluctuation-driven anisotropic assembly in nanoscale systems

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2732-2737

  Bozorgui, Behnaz ^a   Meng, Dong ^a   Kumar, Sanat K ^a   Chakravarty, Charusita ^b   Cacciuto, Angelo ^c  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropic assemblies; computer simulations; fluctuation effects; ligand grafted nanoparticles; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; ASYMMETRIC LIGANDS; FLUCTUATION EFFECTS; GRAFTED NANOPARTICLES; NANO-SCALE SYSTEM; ORIENTATIONAL DEPENDENCE; SPHERICAL NANOPARTICLES;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84879107865     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl401378r     Document Type: Article

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